Bill Text: TX HB2897 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the mental health first aid program training and reporting.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-29 - Referred to Public Health [HB2897 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2897-Introduced.html
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By: Price | H.B. No. 2897 |
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relating to the mental health first aid program training and | ||
reporting. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 1001.205, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1001.205. REPORTS. (a) Not later than September 30 | ||
of each year, a local mental health authority shall provide to the | ||
department the number of: | ||
(1) employees and contractors of the authority who | ||
were trained as mental health first aid trainers under Section | ||
1001.202 during the preceding fiscal year, the number of trainers | ||
who left the program for any reason during the preceding fiscal | ||
year, and the number of active trainers; | ||
(2) educators, school district employees other than | ||
educators, and school resource officers who completed a mental | ||
health first aid training program offered by the authority under | ||
Section 1001.203 during the preceding fiscal year categorized by | ||
local mental health authority region, school district, and category | ||
of personnel; and | ||
(3) individuals who are not school district employees | ||
or school resource officers who completed a mental health first aid | ||
training program offered by the authority during the preceding | ||
fiscal year. | ||
(b) Not later than December 1 of each year, the department | ||
shall compile the information submitted by local mental health | ||
authorities as required by Subsection (a) and submit a report to the | ||
legislature containing [ |
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(1) the number of authority employees and contractors | ||
trained as mental health first aid trainers during the preceding | ||
fiscal year, the number of trainers who left the program for any | ||
reason during the preceding fiscal year, and the number of active | ||
trainers; | ||
(2) the number of educators, school district employees | ||
other than educators, and school resource officers who completed a | ||
mental health first aid training program provided by an authority | ||
during the preceding fiscal year categorized by local mental health | ||
authority region, school district, and category of personnel; [ |
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(3) the number of individuals who are not school | ||
district employees or school resource officers who completed a | ||
mental health first aid training program provided by an authority | ||
during the preceding fiscal year; and | ||
(4) a detailed accounting of expenditures of money | ||
appropriated for the purpose of implementing this subchapter. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter H, Chapter 1001, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 1001.207 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1001.207. PROGRAM PROMOTION. (a) The commission shall | ||
make available on its official Internet website information about | ||
the Mental Health First Aid Training Program for the purpose of | ||
promoting public awareness of the program. An electronic link to an | ||
outside source of information is not sufficient. | ||
(b) The Texas Education Agency shall make available on its | ||
official Internet website information about the Mental Health First | ||
Aid Training Program for the purpose of promoting public awareness | ||
of the program. An electronic link to an outside source of | ||
information is not sufficient. | ||
SECTION 3. (a) Section 1001.205(a), Health and Safety Code, | ||
as amended by this Act, applies only to a report due under that | ||
section after September 30, 2017. A report due under that section | ||
before that date is governed by the law in effect immediately before | ||
the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect | ||
for that purpose. | ||
(b) Section 1001.205(b), Health and Safety Code, as amended | ||
by this Act, applies only to a report due under that section after | ||
December 1, 2017. A report due under that section before that date | ||
is governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective | ||
date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. Not later than December 1, 2017, the Health and | ||
Human Services Commission and the Texas Education Agency shall | ||
update their Internet websites to include the information required | ||
by Section 1001.207, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |